New Mexico’s Clean Transportation Fuel Standard | Where do I fall? | Why opt in?
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Glossary
Where do I fall?
Must register: Mandatory regulated parties
Producers, importers, or dispensers of the following transportation fuel in New Mexico:
- Gasoline
- Diesel
- Fossil natural gas (compressed, liquefied, and liquefied-compressed)
- Fossil propane and other liquefied petroleum gases
- Ethanol
- Hydrogen
- Biodiesel, renewable diesel, renewable gasoline, renewable naphtha
- Synthetic fuel
- Dyed fuel, starting in 2029
- Blended fuel containing any fuel listed above
May register: Voluntary opt-in parties
Producers, importers, or dispensers of the following clean transportation fuel in New Mexico:
- Electricity
- Includes electric vehicle manufacturers and owners of charging equipment
- Biomethane (compressed, liquified, and liquified-compressed)
- Renewable propane or other liquified gas types
- Alternative jet fuel
- Blended fuel containing any fuel listed above
- Backstop aggregator
- A non-profit entity selected by NMED that can collect, report, manage, and sell credits that would otherwise go unclaimed. They add credits to the credit market. The revenue from the sale of these credits is used to invest in transportation decarbonization measures.
- Factsheet for backstop aggregators
Exemptions
Exemptions vary by business model, fuel type, fuel use, and fuel quantity. Exemptions may still have certain obligations in the program, like maintaining reports or claiming exemptions with NMED. For more detailed information, see the rule section.
Producers selling both non-exempt and exempt fuels must report the exempt fuels, but reporting exempt fuels will not generate deficits. Producers of low-carbon versions of these fuels may opt-in to generate credits.
In general, exempt fuels include:
- Retail gasoline and diesel, unless the retailer also produces or imports fuel
- Aviation fuel
- Railroad fuel
- Fuel used in military vehicles
- “Small volume” fuel: fuel produced in small quantities in New Mexico overall
